THE delegates and members of the Florida Medical

Association arrived at Key West about 6 P. M., Tuesday, April 5th, and were met at the steamship by the Local Committee of Arrangements and warmly welcomed to their Island Home. They took the members in carriages for a drive over the island and then left the ladies of the party at Dr. Porter's residence, where a reception was held in their honor; while the gentlemen were taken to a hotel and treated to a sumptuous dinner, the honors of which were presided over by Dr. R. D. Murray. After the conclusion of this repast they repaired to the United States Court Room, where a large concourse of citizens had assembled to extend them a welcome. The "Vacant Chair" of their deceased President, Dr. Thomas P. Gary, was draped in mourning, and a beautiful wreath of flowers-true emblem of his cheery and genial spirit—was placed upon it. It was a sad reminder of his death, but a fitting tribute to him who had so recently been among us.

FLORIDA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

KEY WEST, FLA., April 5, 1892. The Florida Medical Association met in the city of Key West at 8 P. M., Tuesday evening, April 5, 1892, Dr. J. Harris Pierpont, First Vice-President, in the chair. The meeting was called to order by Dr. J. Y. Porter, chairman of the Committee on Arrangements, who spoke as follows:

MR. PRESIDENT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: The grateful duty was delegated to me at the last meeting of the Florida Medical Association to act as chairman of the Committee of Arrangements for this annual meeting at Key West. It was my hope that sufficient time would be allowed for the Association to spend several days in our city. I had trusted that the transportation arrangements would be such that the Association could have remained over at least two days, and the Local Committee thought that their hopes would be realized this year when the fourth steamer per week was put on from Key West to It would thus have given the Association time to transact its business here and then have taken the excursion to Havana, which they proposed doing. But the fourth steamer has been taken off, and it becomes necessary, if the Association purposes to go to Havana, to leave

Havana.

to-night, or to wait over until Friday, and it has been decided that it will be better to leave to-night in order that the physicians may get back to their duties within the time first proposed. I now have the pleasure of introducing to you Dr. J. R. Perry, Mayor of the city of Key

West.

MAYOR'S ADDRESS OF WELCOME.

MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE ASSOCIATION: It is indeed a pleasant duty, as Mayor of Key West, to extend to you a most cordial welcome to the homes and hospitality of our people. Isolated and difficult of access as we are, we appreciate the decided compliment you

pay us in denominating this city as the point at which to hold your annual meeting, coming as you do from various and far divergent portions of our commonwealth and making this a common converging center from which new ideas, possibly new theories, may be evolved. Whilst necessarily unacquainted with much in medical science, we are content to hope that we, too, will share in the happy results to flow from your deliberations here, however short. The science of human nature is so intimately blended with the natural sciences that it is difficult to conceive of its separation from any of the conditions and surroundings by which in life we are materially affected. Hence, your task as conscientious physicians, though arduous and self-abnegating, is God-like in its possibilities. Art is long and life is short, and he who labors hardest and trims closest the midnight taper, will find at the end of a life, however long, that there are still mines of truth and learning yet unfathomed by him and springs from which will issue blessed streams long after he has gone over the river. Let me congratulate you. gentlemen, upon your professional associates in Key West. Welcome, thrice welcome, to our island home, and may your stay among us be both pleasant and profitable.

In response, President Pierpont said:

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: We thank you most heartily for this cordial welcome to your island home, and in the same breath we regret that our stay will necessarily be so short. That our time is so limited here is the universal regret of the Association. I can only say we thank you most heartily for the attentions already received, particularly the opportunity given us this afternoon of seeing the island, and we shall return to our homes feeling that this has been among the most pleasant portions of our trip. We thank you most heartily.

Upon motion of Dr. Porter, the regular order of business was dispensed with and the address of the President made next in order. The President accordingly delivered his address, which was listened to with much interest, and at its close referred, by motion, to a special com